Saturday Cinema: Collage Animation with Kathleen Quillian

In this hands-on workshop, learn how to create your own stop-motion collage animation using a range of found images and materials that are assembled in creative ways to become entirely new and often unexpected moving compositions. Media artist Kathleen Quillian will share examples of collage animations and discuss the different styles artists have experimented with. She’ll then lead you as you scavenge through magazines, books, and other printed material to collect and construct the perfect imagery for crafting your own animation. Each participant will have access to an animation table, which you’ll use to realize your creative vision, capturing the scene one frame at a time.

Kathleen Quillian is an Oakland-based artist who works in a range of moving and nonmoving media. She has exhibited in venues and festivals internationally, including International Film Festival Rotterdam, San Francisco International Film Festival, Antimatter Film Festival, Animasivo, REDCAT, the Exploratorium, and the San Jose Museum of Art, among others. She has served on the boards of directors of San Francisco Cinematheque and Artists’ Television Access. She is currently a codirector of Shapeshifters Cinema, a monthly expanded cinema series that she cofounded with Gilbert Guerrero in 2012.